Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Feb 2020 08:42:54 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/boot/compressed: Remove unnecessary sections from bzImage |
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On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 11:21:44PM -0800, Fangrui Song wrote: > In GNU ld, it seems that .shstrtab .symtab and .strtab are special > cased. Neither the input section description *(.shstrtab) nor *(*) > discards .shstrtab . I feel that this is a weird case (probably even a bug) > that lld should not implement.
Ok, forget what the tools do for a second: why is .shstrtab special and why would one want to keep it?
Because one still wants to know what the section names of an object are or other tools need it or why?
Thx.
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